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...weekly unemployment claims have been headed up all this time - and the four-week rolling average, over 400,000 at last count, is definitely knock-knock-knocking on recession's door. In this era of market madness, consumers may well have wearily learned to separate their portfolios from their household budgets. But no economist is yet suggesting that they'll continue to spend without a paycheck...
...Brought up in austerity, Indira Gandhi was a moody adolescent, highly sensitive to criticism, especially from her family. The Nehru household was divided along linguistic and religious lines. Her grandfather and father (and his sisters) spoke and wrote in English, while her mother and grandmother ate separately in their private quarters and spoke Hindi. The men were agnostic, the women superstitious and devout. Separated for much of her youth from her jailed father, Jawaharlal Nehru, and from her perpetually ill mother, Indira Gandhi was dispatched to a variety of schools across India. As a teenager, she went to Europe, where...
Powderfinger is not a household name, and yet this honest band hailing from Brisbane, Australia, produces possibly the best rock around. They have been the most successful band in their native country for quite a while, but it is only with their fourth album, Odyssey Number Five, that they make their U.S. debut. And what a debut...
EXPECTING. PRINCESS MASAKO, 37, wife of Naruhito, heir to the Japanese throne; in Tokyo. According to the Imperial Household Agency, the Princess is "showing signs" that she is seven or eight weeks pregnant. It will be the couple's first child. The palace blamed Masako's 1999 miscarriage in part on media scrutiny...
...telecom start-ups that, in retrospect, shouldn't have been funded so richly. If you had a business card and were breathing, you could have got a loan. By June 2000, total borrowing by nonfinancial U.S. companies stood at $4.6 trillion, up 60% from five years before. Total household debt surged to $7 trillion, up nearly 50% in that time period...